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Tut’s Fever Movie Palace
Tut’s Fever is a working movie theater and art installation created by Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong, an homage to the ornate, exotic picture palaces of the 1920s
Behind the Screen
The Museum's core exhibition immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment.
The Jim Henson Exhibition
This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
Creatures from the Land of Thra: Character Design for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
This exhibition explores the process of designing the fantastical characters for the Netflix series prequel to the 1982 film.
An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze
In his companion piece installation to The Underground Railroad, Jenkins further engages ideas about visibility, history, and power in moving-image portraits of the show’s background actors.
LAIKA: Life in Stop Motion
This new exhibition invites visitors of all ages to appreciate the painstaking work of stop-motion animation, with eight animation stations equipped with 2-D LAIKA character figures and environments that visitors can use to experiment with and create their own short films.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Chinonye Chukwu’s Till
This new temporary exhibition explores the process of creating the story depicted in Chinonye Chukwu’s acclaimed 2022 feature Till, through storyboards created by Jesse Michael Owen.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
The material on view in this new exhibition provides a glimpse into the process of bringing the story of Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking to the screen.
Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar
This major exhibition brings the immersive, multisensory cinematic installations of visionary Spanish artist, filmmaker, and inventor José Val del Omar (1904–1982) to U.S. audiences for the first time, along with commissioned pieces by contemporary artists Sally Golding, Matt Spendlove, and Tim Cowlishaw; Duo Prismáticas; Esperanza Collado; and Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.
Refreshing the Loop
Refreshing the Loop continues Museum of the Moving Image’s tradition of displaying GIFs in our passenger elevator. This new iteration places artists who have been widely known for their GIFs for more than two decades in conversation with selected artists who have gained notable popularity in the last few years.
Star Wars (Special Edition)
Star Wars (Special Edition)
Few films have had more of an impact on popular culture than this box office juggernaut, which cannily stirred together elements of early cinema serials, westerns, sci-fi epics, mythological quest narratives, and more.
Star Wars (Special Edition)
Star Wars (Special Edition)
Few films have had more of an impact on popular culture than this box office juggernaut, which cannily stirred together elements of early cinema serials, westerns, sci-fi epics, mythological quest narratives, and more.
Morocco
Morocco
Dietrich’s nightclub entrance in Morocco as sultry performer Amy Jolly doubled as Dietrich’s indelible entrance into Hollywood.
The Rescuers
The Rescuers
Among the most charming and vividly realized animated features of Disney’s post–Golden Age, this hit adaptation of a series of books by Margery Sharp follows the adventures of the Rescue Aid Society, a group of mice helping international victims in peril.
Star Wars (Special Edition)
Star Wars (Special Edition)
Few films have had more of an impact on popular culture than this box office juggernaut, which cannily stirred together elements of early cinema serials, westerns, sci-fi epics, mythological quest narratives, and more.
Hellraiser
Hellraiser
See Clive Barker’s genre-defining horror classic as part of our Disreputable Cinema series, followed by a book signing with Preston Fassel, author of the new novel Beasts of 42nd Street.
Blow Out
Blow Out
John Travolta gives one of his strongest performances as a movie sound man in Brian De Palma’s masterful and ambitious variation on Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up.
The Rescuers
The Rescuers
Among the most charming and vividly realized animated features of Disney’s post–Golden Age, this hit adaptation of a series of books by Margery Sharp follows the adventures of the Rescue Aid Society, a group of mice helping international victims in peril.
Jaws
Jaws
The summer movie that started it all, this improbable, against-all-odds blockbuster about a New England vacation spot terrorized by a great white shark proved that Spielberg was a force to be reckoned with.
New York Arab Festival Short Film Program
New York Arab Festival Short Film Program
This year's program reflects the diverse voices from contemporary Arab filmmakers based in the U.S. or in the larger diaspora who create works that challenge how the region has historically been mapped, presented, and represented.
The Fly
The Fly
Body horror maestro Cronenberg’s fascination with the limits and possibilities of the flesh, the potentials of technology and science, and humans reaching for godlike power hit its watershed with this horror romance.